Based on recently released reports, there is a slim chance that many Black children will be able to join or increase the size of the Black Middle Class.
Becoming lower middle class is the bare minimum for the standard of life that anyone would wis ...
Posted Friday, May 20th 2011 at 12:44PM
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The following article contains excerpts from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan's April 1, 2011 interview on WPFW-Pacifica Radio with Spectrum Today's Askia Muhammad, along with regular panelist Wilmer Leon, host of XM Satellite Radio's On With L ...
Posted Friday, May 20th 2011 at 12:40PM
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Princeton University professor and author Cornel West has many followers who admire his pro-Black progressive ideology. His wit, historical research and insight into Black political and cultural life delight, entertain and intrigue many. But his mont ...
Posted Thursday, May 19th 2011 at 12:25PM
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NEW BOOK HELPS STUDENTS FIND SCHOLARSHIPS WHEN THEIR GRADES SUCK AND THEIR PARENTS ARE BROKE
According to the 2010 Nation's Report Card released by the U.S. Department of Education, the average high schooler's G.P.A. is in the high B to low C range. ...
Posted Thursday, May 19th 2011 at 9:52AM
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HuffingtonPost.com--Robert Fitzpatrick does not lack conviction.
The 60-year-old ex-MTA employee has plunked down $140,000, his life savings, to help spread the word that the world will end on May 21, 2011.
"I'm trying to warn people about what ...
Posted Wednesday, May 18th 2011 at 12:36PM
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USATODAY.com--Oprah Winfrey has revealed the real reason why she’s ending her daytime talk show after 25 years on the air. In an editorial published in her ‘O’ magazine this month, Oprah revealed that a dying 12-year-old boy told her to end her show ...
Posted Wednesday, May 18th 2011 at 12:22PM
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Four white Philadelphia teachers charge in federal race-bias lawsuits that a black principal suggested they were unfit to teach black students.
The teachers work at a predominantly black school in the city's East Falls neighborhood. Their lawsuits ...
Posted Wednesday, May 18th 2011 at 12:17PM
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HEALTH.com--One hundred obese mums-to-be will be given Metformin as part of a three-year study to tackle obesity rates and reduce the number of difficult births.
Patients at Liverpool Women's Hospital will be given the drug to reduce the food supp ...
Posted Tuesday, May 17th 2011 at 1:30PM
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The following is a video shot at a Tucson, Arizona school board meeting. The lady within the video is reading excerpts from a book in the Ethnic Studies curriculum. Yes, the following is actually being taught to children.
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Posted Tuesday, May 17th 2011 at 12:58PM
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BLACK DOCTORS PRESENT A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE WELLNESS INITIATIVES FROM H.R. 3962: THE HEALTH CARE BILL AKA OBAMA CARE
Nationwide (BlackNews.com) -- Drs. Reverend Aldridge and Ruth Locke of the Chicago area, with a combined experience of 50 years i ...
Posted Monday, May 16th 2011 at 4:10PM
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Michael Jackson often sang about saving the world and, indirectly, he may help achieve that goal.
Reginald Garcia, who photographed the young Jackson 33 years ago, believes he has the answer to the world's energy problem. According to a CNN art ...
Posted Monday, May 16th 2011 at 1:49PM
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So Sorry for the Graphic picture, but the story needs to be told!
This story is just amazing to me in how it depicts in my eyes, the unfortunate feelings of how blacks were viewed as nothing but animals, inhuman creatures to be used as nothing but e ...
Posted Monday, May 16th 2011 at 9:17AM
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ATLANTA -- First lady Michelle Obama reminded graduating seniors at Spelman College in Atlanta Saturday of their obligation to pay forward the inheritance they received.
In a commencement speech interwoven with key threads of history of the tradit ...
Posted Sunday, May 15th 2011 at 10:34PM
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This funeral announcement was published in the December 26 2001 edition of Al Wafd, an Egyptian Newspaper, and has been translated from Arabic.
Al-Wafd, Wednesday, December 26, 2001 Vol 15 No 4633
A prominent official in the Afghan Taleban mov ...
Posted Sunday, May 15th 2011 at 10:25PM
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Newsweek.com--A year after the Deepwater Horizon disaster spewed oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the Florida beaches are relatively clean, the surf seems clear and the tourists are returning. But there are signs that the disaster is continuing to affect ...
Posted Sunday, May 15th 2011 at 10:21PM
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Shirley Sherrod, the U.S. Department of Agriculture employee who was forced out after a portion of a videotape was misleadingly used to show her making a racially insensitive remark, will start working for the USDA again, the department told POLITICO ...
Posted Saturday, May 14th 2011 at 3:31PM
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The following text is excerpted from a speech delivered by Minister Louis Farrakhan during October 16, 2001 observance of the Holy Day of Atonement celebrating the 6th anniversary of the Million Man March. The event was held at Christ Universal Templ ...
Posted Saturday, May 14th 2011 at 3:27PM
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by Dr. Boyce Watkins, YourBlackWorld.com.
After moving along quite speedily, it appears that Bishop Eddie Long may end up going to trial after all. Reports are coming out of Atlanta from Channel 2 News that the judge in the case, Johnny Panos, ha ...
Posted Friday, May 13th 2011 at 10:38AM
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After disappointing ratings in its first four months of existence, Oprah Winfrey dismissed OWN network CEO Christina Norman and replaced her with Peter Liguori, chief operating officer for Discovery Communications. Liguori will lead OWN until the end ...
Posted Wednesday, May 11th 2011 at 12:12PM
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WASHINGTON – Former President Jimmy Carter has become the target of a class action lawsuit over ostensibly mean things he said about Israel in his best-selling 2006 book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.
The lawsuit, filed in New York by an Israel ...
Posted Wednesday, May 11th 2011 at 12:09PM
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